“When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.” Proverbs 3:24. Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness! Let him go upstairs without distress with this promise upon his heart “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be…
Read More“One of you routs a thousand, because the Lord your God fights for you, just as he promised.” Joshua 23:10. Why count heads? One man with God is a majority though there be a thousand on the other side. Sometimes our helpers may be too many for God to work with them, as was the…
Read More“I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not.” Isaiah 42:16. Think of the infinitely glorious Jehovah acting as a Guide to the blind! What boundless condescension does this imply! A blind man cannot find a way which he does not know. Even when he knows the road, it is hard for…
Read MoreBut he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” James 4:6. Humble hearts seek grace, and therefore they get it. Humble hearts yield to the sweet influences of grace, and so it is bestowed on them more and more largely. Humble hearts lie…
Read More“Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.” Proverbs 3:23. That is to say, if we follow the ways of wisdom and holiness we shall be preserved in them. He who travels by daylight along the highway is under some protection. There is a way for every man,…
Read More“If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you — you of little faith?” Matthew 6:30. Clothes are expensive, and poor believers may be led into anxiety as to where their next suit will come…
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